The righteous one has no sense of humor.
BERTOLT BRECHTHungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.
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But something’s missing.
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Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to commonsense.
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Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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Recently my fingers have developed a prejudice against comparatives. They all follow this pattern: a squirrel is smaller than a tree; a bird is more musical than a tree.
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Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
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Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.
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Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.
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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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